Tuesday, June 25, 2013

Playing Catch Up

Reviewing my previous posts and noting the gap, I decided I need to fill in some blanks. Angela and I have finished piecing the intergenerational top but I haven't quilted it yet so it remains a UFO with promise of completion in the coming year.

The biggest project that has appeared in the past two years is Angela & Jerrod's son Coen who was born in March of 2011. I have been making frequent trips to visit him in Austin TX and that has been a joy and a priority in my life.

Most of my projects involve quilting, beading and dyeing fabric, but I have been collecting linens, laces, and vintage sewing paraphernalia for forty years and I am looking forward to sharing those with my readers also.

I am fortunate to have two studios in my life. The public studio is shared with my sister-in-law in our main street store called the Art & Antique Gallery.

That is where I design and repair jewelry. I also keep my little Singer Featherweight sewing machine and vintage iron there so I can do a bit of quilt piecing during quiet times. The store basement is filled with antique picture frames, decor, and small furniture that needs sprucing up before I can put in the store. On sunny cool mornings I do a little fabric dyeing and hang it to dry behind the store or I clean up something to add to the store inventory.

My second studio is where I spread out my quilting projects and my genealogy, photography, and linen and lace collections. It consists of two large rooms on the store's second floor next to my mother's apartment. I'll show more of that in my next blog. In the meantime happy creating to you all.

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Growing up in the fifties I learned crochet, sewing, and knitting.
In the sixties I got my degree in psychology and education, married, and worked as counselor and disability specialist for social security. I did macrame, hairpin lace and broomstick lace on my noon breaks.
In the seventies and eighties, I took classes in weaving, spinning, and dyeing, I raised two beautiful kids and I became a certified master gardener.
Through the nineties I learned batik and silk painting. I took drawing lessons and saw my kids off to college.
My brother and his wife, Judy, moved close to us. Judy needed a studio to pursue her painting so in 1999 we bought a hundred year old brick building on main street and opened the Art and Antique Gallery.
We gutted, restored, painted, and polished and our building is now on the National Register of Historic Places. With the millennium, I started journaling. I traveled to Italy, Greece, Austria, France, and England. My brother and I studied lampworking and I began designing jewelry.
I continue to learn something new every day. It is a beautiful life.